Showing posts with label memorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorials. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2020

The last of the COVID-19 memorial has been removed from the corner of 10th and A



The last piece of the COVID-19 memorial that has been on the southeast corner of Avenue A and 10th Street since March 26 is gone.

In recent weeks, only the memorial — titled "Beacon of Hope" — atop the brick column remained. This was after someone vandalized the work once again a few weeks back. (This happened multiple times in the spring.)

It was originally erected in honor of Edd Conboy, a licensed therapist and director of social services at Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia, who died on March 20 of a stroke. He was 69. His brother Jim, an East Village artist, created the memorial after his family was unable to hold a funeral in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The memorial continued to evolve this spring to honor those who died during the pandemic.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

A paver for Jake in Tompkins Square Park


A worker was putting in a new paver this morning around Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park... As the photo by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C shows, the tribute is for Brit's dog Jake...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Tributes set in stone in Tompkins Square Park